PHOTOGRAPHY: Comercial Portfolio: Pacification

Pacification

A young girl touches a painted wall in the Shantytown of Rocinha, the biggest favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 4, 2012.

While many believe that UPPs have helped quell violence by opening the doors of the favelas to public services such as legal electricity supply, garbage collection, education, public works and social assistance program, others see the pacification program as a temporary cover-up to security problems in Rio de Janeiro.